Gender-Affirming Care Facts

https://www.hrc.org/resources/get-the-facts-on-gender-affirming-care

Everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect. But bills in statehouses across the country aim to take away access to gender-affirming care while this medically necessary, safe, life-saving healthcare has been backed by decades of research and supported by every major medical association representing totally over 1.3 million American doctors.

- Parents, kids, and doctors make decisions together, and no medical interventions with permanent consequences happen until a transgender person is old enough to give truly informed consent.

-  Every credible medical organization - representing over 1.3 million American doctors in the United States - calls for age-appropriate gender-affirming care for transgender and non-binary people.

- Gender transition is a personal process that can include changing clothes, names, and hairstyles to fit a person's gender identity.

- In most young children, this can be entirely social, such as new name, new hairstyle, new clothing, and none of these cares are irreversible.

- Being transgender is now new - transgender people have always existed and will continue to exist regardless of the bills.

- All gender-affirming care is age-appropriate, medically necessary, supported by all major medical organizations, and made in consultation with medical and mental health professionals, and parents.

- In many cases, this care is lifesaving! A recent study from the Trevor Project provides the data - transgender youth with access to gender-affirming hormone therapy have lower rates of depression or suicide.



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